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Where’s “AAAAAAAAAlvin!”?

August 17th, 2011 in Alternative Cover, Animals, Kiddies by lpcoverlover | 5 Comments

Wycote Records’ “4 Chipmunks”

Steven Wright writes  … “Your “witch doctor” entry reminded me of this;  this Lp was initially credited to “the 4 chipmunks” before legal pressure forced them to the less plagiaristic “wyncote squirrels”…wyncote was notrious for this — they issued an album called “beatlemania” by the liverpools and “monkey business” by the chimps as blatant ripoffs. Btw, after their first Lp,  david seville allegedly used women to voice his chipmunks”

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  1. #1 Raymond says:
    August 17th, 2011 at 12:35 pm

    I like how after they’ve named a few songs they just print “and others”. Not an enthusiastic “and many more!”, just some… others.

  2. #2 vidman says:
    August 18th, 2011 at 8:42 pm

    Actually that Wyncote album by the Liverpools was really recorded by the Dovells, and it was in STEREO, which none of their Parkway hits were. It was intended to be a ripoff, but turned out to be very collectible!

  3. #3 sRw says:
    August 19th, 2011 at 8:30 am

    that was the dovells? i always thought “you can’t sit down” was a great song, but i always had to fold over the left & right channels because every version i had was in really bad electronically repro-ed stereo. another wynecote shot was a knock-off of “bach’s greatest hits” by the swingle singers — wynecote’s version was “bach’s BIGGEST hits” by the single sWingers.

  4. #4 Jeff Missinne says:
    March 19th, 2013 at 5:17 pm

    I’ve done half-speed “checks” on some of the later Chipmunks records…even their “guest appearance” with Canned Heat…and it was definitely Ross Bagdasarian doing all the vocals right up to the end. It is true, though, that the “Alvin & The Chipmunks” records produced by his son in more recent years have been sung by (mostly male) studio singers, mainly in Nashville!

  5. #5 Bobby Hi-Fi says:
    January 26th, 2014 at 1:28 am

    This record was not made by The Dovells. It was made by The 4 Js. They are friends of mine. If you slow it down, you can pick out Junior Pirollo’s voice.

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